> What's the the status of XFCE regarding accessibility?
>
> That was a big strengh of GNOME for a long time, though I've heard
> rumors (sorry not to be more specific) that gnome-shell has some
> unsolved issues in that regard, which is a problem since GNOME
> classic/fallback mode is gone in 3.8.

An even stronger reason to move away from Gnome if the classic mode
disappears.